Pressure altitude is altitude with altimeter set to 29.92" Hg, used for aircraft performance charts above 18,000 ft in US/Canada. It equals true altitude on a standard day. Density altitude corrects ...

Investigators have determined that the crew of an Etihad Airways Boeing 787-10 did not set the correct destination pressure reference for the altimeter before the twinjet dipped far below the ...

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Khalid, I'm not sure I entirely follow the question as written, but an aircraft sitting on the ground at an airport with field elevation 2000 feet above mean sea level will have a ...

The altimeter of American Airlines Flight 1572 may have been improperly set, misleading the pilots into thinking they were safely above Metacomet Ridge on their approach last week into Bradley ...

Yesterday my wife mentioned that part of the inflight ritual, when you are traveling on an instrument flight plan or getting "flight following" from controllers, is hearing and acknowledging the right ...

But with a QNH setting for the altimeter the aircraft would have been barely 120m above the airfield elevation. While still 15km from Tynda’s runway, the An-24 collided with trees at an altitude of ...

The altimeters were calculating altitude using different measuring devices and the one on the copilot's side had an incorrect figure, but the 39-year-old captain switched his altimeter to reflect the ...